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Adamson Systems Engineering was tapped to provide sound reinforcement for the Miller Lite Oasis Stage at this year’s Milwaukee Summerfest. The 11 day music festival features 11 stages, more than 800 acts, 1,000+ performances and draws an average of 900,000 music lovers from across the country. The E-Series rig reinforced an assortment of big-name acts including Bastille, Public Enemy, Time Flies, Kip Moore, Sublime With Rome, Sammy Hagar and Smash Mouth. The 52,000 square foot Oasis accommodates up to 9,500…
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This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. Critiquing your mix is one of the best ways improving your mix. You’ll improve the mix for the next week but you can also immediately improve your mix for the song you are critiquing. Today, I’m kicking out the questions you must ask, concerning your mix, as well as a new method I’ve been using. Top 11 Questions to Ask of Your Mix 1) Can I hear all the musicians and…
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Since the 1940’s, Caramoor in Katonah, NY has drawn thousands of discerning music lovers, annually, to explore its lush gardens, visit the historic Rosen House, and to enjoy a picnic before a memorable concert. Caramoor recently brought in Italian Speaker Imports to install FBT loudspeakers at the venue. With just eight FBT J8 speakers, the venue’s tented, 1,550-seat outdoor Venetian Theater is the only one of Caramoor’s three concert spaces that maintains permanently mounted speakers. “The concerts here that are…
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Charlottetown’s Confederation Centre of the Arts is the National Memorial to the Fathers of Confederation and home to the world’s longest-running annual musical, Anne of Green Gables – The Musical, which recently wrapped up its 51st consecutive season. Built in 1964 for the national centennial, the Centre is now nearing the completion of a renovation of its centerpiece Homburg Theatre, which includes new balconies and additional loudspeakers from L-Acoustics. One of the top priorities of the Centre’s management during the…
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Avid announces the appointment of Paula E. Boggs to its board of directors. Boggs’ many years of corporate leadership experience, combined with her background as a musician experienced with Avid products, will provide a unique perspective as the company continues to deliver on Avid Everywhere. Boggs has held a variety of professional and community leadership roles for over 25 years. A former member of the executive team at Starbucks Coffee Company, she led the global law department of Starbucks for…
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Six years after installing Meyer Sound loudspeakers in its Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College in Oakland has again turned to Meyer Sound to add UPQ-1P loudspeakers. The new addition works with the hall’s existing equipment to support an array of experimental and electronic music performances and recording sessions for the college’s Center for Contemporary Music (CCM). “Meyer Sound speakers are refined and silky in the high end, and I don’t know of any better sounding speaker for this room than…
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The AX32 AD/DA converter and digital router interface from Digital Audio Denmark (DAD) has been certified by the Music Engineering and Technology Alliance (METAlliance). METAlliance founding member Frank Filipetti remarked, “Great A to D conversion is one of the hardest things in audio to do right.” “For nearly fifteen years my tried and true converters have served me well, and never once during that time have I yearned for the latest innovations. That is until now. The DAD AX32 converters…
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Classical music recording and production company Soundmirror took the new Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid Wireless bodypack LT transmitters straight from the production line to the stage earlier this year to capture L.A. Opera’s West Coast premiere of The Ghosts of Versailles. Soundmirror utilized 13 of the new L Series Large Bandwidth transmitters in combination with 11 Lectrosonics SMQV transmitters and 4 six-channel Venue receivers for a total of 24 channels of wireless to record composer John Corigliano’s opera, which was being…
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High Kirk Presbyterian Church in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Ireland, recently installed Allen & Heath GLD digital consoles as part of a major refurbishment project. The Church purchased two GLD-112 desks – one for live sound and one for recording – plus, an AR2412 and two AR84 IO expanders. The two desks were fitted with M-Dante network cards, providing simple to use multitrack recording capabilities. The Church needed to satisfy a variety of operators with the choice of console. Some only…
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LynTec introduces a new timed event scheduling and astronomical clock capabilities on its Remote Power Control (RPC) and RPCR Automated Relay Panel products. Enabling timed control of on/off events at the circuit level, the innovations provide customers with the market’s simplest scheduling system to both program and use. “Equipping our RPC and RPCR solutions with timed event scheduling streamlines the setup and operation process, making any AVL-based installation much more efficient,” said Mark Bishop, president of LynTec. “Integrated directly into…
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